This is the second in a weeklong series of articles chronicling Harvard’s remembrance of the Boston Marathon Bombings that occured a year ago.

One year after emergency workers and medical personnel rushed to the finish line of the Boston Marathon to attend to the hundreds of runners and spectators at the site of the bombings, the Countway Library of Medicine is continuing its efforts to expand “Strong Medicine,” a digital archive that captures and compiles the stories of the bombing's emergency responders.

Originally conceived in the summer of 2013, the archive was made available to the public earlier in the spring, according to Scott H. Podolsky, director of the Center for the History of Medicine, a set of collections at Countway that hosts the archive.

The archive commemorates the efforts of hospital administrators, doctors, and emergency workers who mobilized in the wake of the fatal, unprecedented bombings, which injured hundreds and killed three. In addition, by centralizing narratives and information regarding Boston’s emergency response, the creators of the archive said that they hope that it will serve as a resource for historians and doctors alike.

Currently, the archive contains more than 30 oral histories of surgeons, hospital administrators, and directors of emergency departments who were involved in the emergency response, which many doctors and commentators have since lauded. The collection also includes several commemorative cards and posters that were created in the wake of the bombing.

“I think it’s really important to collect history as it’s happening so that people still remember the smaller details about what they were doing last year,” said Joan Ilacqua, the "Strong Medicine" project coordinator. “What we really want to do is make sure that we have a permanent record of that moment in Boston.”

Under the leadership of Ilacqua, four Boston-area graduate students have helped to collect materials and expand the archive.

One of these students, Miriam Rich, who has been interviewing medical professionals for the archive, said that the collection can serve both the general public and medical officials.

“[The archive] will help people appreciate and understand the level of coordination between different people and teams and institutions that need to work together in order for such a successful response to an emergency to happen,” said Rich, a graduate student in Harvard’s History of Science Department. “We can continue to repeat and improve on such a successful emergency response protocol.”